Of course the so-called "Labour" governments bears a large measure of blame, but that's not immediately relevant. We are stuck with a poisonous political system in which the existing parties are scrabbling around divorced from any kind of principle, competing for who can be nasty enough to appeal to a nasty minority of self-satisfied "Middle Englanders". But that's the system we are stuck with.

Cruel and stupid policies that hurt innocent people have to be attacked, regardless of who is promoting them. At present that means a very nasty Tory government, supported by pretty slimy LibDems, and colluded in much of the time by time serving Labour local authorities.

"Families in Hartlepool and LIverpool who have suffered the death of a child now face cuts for their empty bedrooms" (from today's Guardian) - both Labour controlled councils.

But the people with power to stop ths grotesque piece of legislation are the Tories, and they are the ones to target at this time.